OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government expressed surprise and disappointment Monday after learning that one of its own former staffers had been arrested in an anti-corruption raid that also targeted the Montreal mayor.

OTTAWA – On the very day in December 2008 when Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed Mike Duffy as one of 18 new Conservative senators, there were loud objections from a University of Prince Edward Island law professor that the well-known CTV broadcaster — a Charlottetown native but an Ottawa-area resident for more than three decades — could not legally be named to represent P.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives challenged NDP Leader Tom Mulcair on Thursday to explain why he waited 17 years before speaking out about a meeting linked to a police investigation in Quebec.

For years, it wasn’t uncommon for Canada’s corporate bosses to turn a blind eye when it came to dishing out lavish gifts to foreign officials — a Land Rover, money to cover children’s tuition, access to booze and women.

OTTAWA — The federal government is moving to crack down on Canadian companies involved in corruption abroad following reports in recent months of firms bribing foreign officials to secure lucrative deals in places such as Chad and Libya.